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I often walk past Truro's Conservative Club on my way to work, though I have never been inside. I especially like the unusual brass sign near the front door.
Happy Fence Friday!
Conservative Party Conference 2008, ICC.
Practical Action protesting about climate change.
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You can just see Eva Peron or Margaret Thatcher making a speech from this ornate balcony....the politicians have long deserted this fine building, which is now a nightclub.
Ken Clarke, Adam Afriyie, Jonathan Djanogly and Geoffrey Clifton-Brown on the Business panel at the 2009 Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Tuesday October 6, 2009. (Photo by Paul Toeman)
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Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 28/07/2022. Leeds, United Kingdom. Conservative Party Leadership Hustings in Leeds. Leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak take part in the Conservative Party Leadership Leeds Hustings event. Picture by Ben Stevens CCHQ / Parsons Media
"Lincoln League of Tennessee" Church Family Papers
The Lincoln League was the name taken by a number of Republican Party-affiliated clubs in the United States, named for President Abraham Lincoln. Among the most famous of the leagues was one organized in 1916 by Robert Church Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee.
Tennessee Lincoln League
The Tennessee Lincoln League was established by Robert Church Jr. in 1916 and advocated for African American interests in the Republican Party. Church recruited various business leaders to join the group including T. H. Hayes, J. B. Martin, Levoy McCoy, Bert M. Roddy, and Josiah T. Settle. The Lincoln League worked to secure patronage (government jobs doled out by party leaders) and advocated for policies against lynching, fire protection, police services, parks, and schools. The group also raised money to pay poll taxes so African Americans could vote and supported voter education at night schools, promoted candidates, and held fundraisers. The group leveraged African American voters and solidarity to deliver political involvement, influence, and government funding to benefit the African American community. The group also advocated for representation, rights, safety, and recognition for African Americans in the Republican Party.
Organized in Memphis, the group held meetings in Church Park Auditorium on Beale Street, an African American-owned venue. The group's success expanded to various cities and towns in Tennessee as well as to cities in other states. The Lincoln League took to the national stage with the development of the Lincoln League of America and a national meeting was held in Chicago in February, 1920. According to the Tennessee Encyclopedia, the Lincoln League contributed to later Civil Rights movements by promoting African American racial solidarity.
In Robert R. Church Jr.’s time, black vote winning was a grass-roots grind. Church never held public office. His power and prestige grew from the Lincoln League, founded to educate and register African-American voters. He had started off locally, with headquarters on Memphis' legendary Beale Street. During the same years that blues composer W.C. Handy led a black takeover of American popular music from Beale, Church plotted a similar revolution in politics. In Memphis elections, Church developed a tiebreaker strategy. His coalition lacked the numbers to win an office outright, but city mayoral races typically came down to the open Democratic primary. In a toss-up between white Democrats, Church’s 10,000 black voters could tip the balance of power and decide an election. Look familiar?
In a smoky room, Church dealt his support in exchange for black community upgrades. A compromise, but in Southern-style realpolitik, a preferable alternative to African-Americans' having no influence at all. Church would leverage a black presence on the police force, improved parks, playgrounds and streets in black neighborhoods, and newly built schools and healthcare facilities for African-American citizens of Memphis.
The Lincoln League enlisted women to teach voting classes in every black church or fellowship hall in every black neighborhood in Memphis. Voting school instructors made weekly reports to headquarters, specifying the number of new voters trained. Weekly rallies attracted thousands. The League grew statewide and expanded into New Orleans and Chicago branches, site of the League’s 1920 national convention, when Church invited white GOP figures to attend and witness the power.
As of that year’s election, no former Confederate state had gone for the party of Lincoln since 1876 — 11 states, 10 elections. Church’s home state of Tennessee had gone conservative in every election since 1868.
Church sent campaigners door-to-door like salesmen to register African-American voters and get them to the polls. A League speakers’ bureau dispersed loquacious volunteers at the neighborhood level to invigorate voters. “Now there were some groups that if you sent a man there with too much polish he couldn’t get away with it,” recalled Lincoln Leaguer Herbert Brewster. “They wanted you to come down to earth and talk street talk.”
They adapted, and made sure to send out the right orator to suit the climate. Lincoln League electioneers went out in loudspeaker-equipped automobiles to set up outside factories at lunch hour.
Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron arrives at Broadway House, London, with the Chairman of the Conservative Party Eric Pickles to announce another Liberal Democrat defector to the Conservative Party, Friday September 18, 2009. (Photo by Andrew Parsons)
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Former Director of the National Security Agency Michael Hayden speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
"The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself" - unless you're a Republican politician; they you're afraid of everything.
Chorleywood just elected a Conservative MP, I saw this on the wall by the newsagents as I was walking home a couple of days later.
Signed photograph of Prime Minister of Canada, John Diefenbaker, with a group of Young Progressive Conservatives during a visit to Belleville, Ontario.
Text reads: "To Jack Thompson and Ed Purdy with Best wishes, John Diefenbaker"
The text on the envelope containing this photograph reads: "Sir, Please autograph for Young PC's.
Mr Jack Thompson
Mr. Ed. Purdy.
Picture taken when you were in Belleville. Thanks, Rod Webb."
This photograph was kept in a baby book compiled by Elizabeth Margaret (Beth) Purdy (1900-1995) relating to her son, Beverley Edward Purdy (1945-1991). The book was donated to Glanmore National Historic Site in November 1994 and transferred to the Community Archives in July 2022.
Theresa May, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, speaks at the 2009 Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Wednesday October 7, 2009. (Photo by Paul Toeman)
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On the history of women's studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
1897
Conservative journalist A.F. Seligmann founded the art school for women and girls and taught there as a single teacher 16 students in the "Curs for head and act". 1898 expands the school: Tina Blau, a former teacher of the Munich artists association conducts 1.1.1898 a "Curs for landscape and still-life", which she held until 1915. Richard Kauffungen was nominated for sculpture, Ludwig Michalek led the "Curs for head and act" as well as an Radierkurs (etching course), Adolf Böhm the course for decorative and applied arts, Fabiani teaches ornamentation and style of teaching as well as "Modern home furnishings", Georg Klimt taught metalwork, Friedrich King wood cutting art and Hans Tichy from 1900 the drawing and painting from the living model. In all these teachers are moderate modern artists from the area of the Secession. The theoretical lectures are held in the company founded by Emil Zuckerkandl and Julius Tandler 1900 "Association of Austrian university lecturers Athenaeum", which had the task to be "an educational institution for members of the female sex". The first school year was completed with 64 students, the school is rapidly expanding, so that it forms 200-300 students annually within a few years. The steady growth is due to the restrictive attitude of the public schools of art (especially the academy) towards women, but also from the indiscriminate admission of which have been blamed all the private schools also on the part of women harshly, and just by women.
1904
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is one of the many requests for opening the Academy for students once again putting the old arguments against that women are rarely equipped with creative spirit in the field of great art and the other a "proliferation of dilettantism and a pushing back of male members" is to be feared. Just the idea of a joint education had "abhorred" the College. The Academy therefore advocates for the financial support of the art school for women and girls, and rejects the application for opening the academy for women unanimously. The main argument for the impossibility of the joint Aktzeichnens (nude drawing) and the need for a second Aktsaales (nude hall) is increasingly mentioned, which cannot be realized because lack of space and lack of money. Henni Lehmann (Artistic studies of women, Darmstadt 1913) countered the same argument in Germany: "The common nude studies of women and men can not be described as impossible as it is done in many places, without having shown any grievances". The objection of the Quorum of the Berlin University professors that no teacher could be forced to teach women at all in such delicate subjects is countered that the problem was easily solved by entrusting a lady the Aktunterricht (nude drawing) in ladies. Suitable artists were plentiful present. That the life drawing for a long time (until 1937) remained problematic, shows the application of the renowned sculptor Teresa F. Ries of 1931, in which she was offering the Academy her services for the purpose of the management of a yet to be affiliated department, where young girls separated from the young men could work under the direction of a woman. The application was not even put to a vote.
1912
The rector of the Munich Academy also does not believe in the inclusion of students (female ones): "... it is impossible, even with regard to the space conditions, apart from that that the aspirations of the artists who devote themselves to the arts especially are usually others than that of women..."
1913
No significant change in attitude can be found between the opinions of the Academies from 1904 and those of 1913.
1919
In the report from the College's meeting of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to the State Office of Internal Affairs and Teaching is communicated that against the requested admission there were no fundamental objections, but that the Academy is so limited in spatial relationship, that after the experiences of the last entrance exams not even the majority of gifted young artists, capable of studying, could be included, and therefore, in case of the admission of women to the study initially had to be made a considerable expansion. The State Office counters that a further delay in the admission of women to the academic study could not be justified and that approval is to allow at least temporarily in a narrow frame.
1920
The State Office for the Interior and Education officially approved the admission of women to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (since 1919 women were admitted to all faculties of the University of Vienna, with the exception of the Catholic and Protestant Theological Faculty).
A committee consisting of the professors Bacher, Delug, Schmutzer, and Jettmar Muellner claims that the Academy has never pronounced in principle against women's studies but have always only expressed reservations because of the cramped space and financial situation. As a complete novelty proves that no more concerns are raised with regard to coeducation. Men and women should compete in the entrance examination. In the winter semester 1920/21 will be included 14 women, of course, representing only a small minority in relation to the 250 male students.
1926/1927
In the new study regulations are for the first time mentioned Schüler (M) and Schülerinnen (F).
March 1927
Report of the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts about the experiences regarding the access of women to universities: ..."in past years it was thought for the education of women and girls by the Academy of Women for Liberal and Applied Art, which is also equipped with academic classes and by the State subsidized, sufficiently having taken precautions: during a period of almost seven years of study, it was probably possible to get a clear picture about the access applications of women, and about the degree course ... Of course, the number of female candidates in the painting is strongest, weaker in sculpture, and very low in the architecture. As much already now can be said, that in no way in terms of education in the new admissions the women are left behind the male candidates. During the study period, the female students are not in diligence and seriousness of studying behind their male colleagues. Particularly gratifying can be emphasized that because of the co-education of both sexes in common rooms in the individual schools a win-win situation for everybody was. In the master schools the College was repeatedly able also honouring women with academic prices. Subsuming, it should be emphasized that our experiences with the study of women in the Academy of Fine Arts were quite favorable."
The number of students (Studentinnen) increased from 5 % in the winter semester 1920/1921 till 1939/1940 to about 25 %. After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, the number of students (Studentinnen) decreased. The proportion of female students rose after 1940 naturally, reached during the war years up to 70 % and amounted 1945/1946 to 65%. From 1946/1947 the number of students (Studentinnen) fell sharply again, so 1952/1953 only 20% of the students at the Academy were women. 1963/1964 there were, however, already 41% (278).
2002
Students (Studentinnen): 570 of 936 students
University professors (Universitätsprofessorinnen): 9 out of 29
Ao Univ. (extraordinary female professors) 2 of 12
Univ.Ass. (female university assistant) 18 of 41
Contract teachers (Vertragslehrerinnen): 3 of 7
Lecturer (Lehrbeautragte): 32 of 46
Almut Krapf
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Manchester has seen large numbers of visitors over the past few days as the city again played host to a major political conference.
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“This is a complex and challenging security and public order operation which requires a high degree of partnership activity and the highest levels of professionalism throughout.
“As is the norm, there have been elements of protest throughout the conference period - 30,000 people marched through the city on Sunday alone.
“The vast majority of people attending protests did so in the spirit of their causes, worked with us to make sure they could voice their opinions in a safe manner and with minimal disruption to others.
“On the occasions where individuals crossed the line we have taken positive action and 11 people have been arrested as a result of unacceptable behaviour over the past few days.
“Throughout this operation officers have worked tirelessly to protect delegates, facilitate the protests, and keep our city safe.
“I am proud of all our officers and staff. They have all performed their duties to the highest of standards and acted in a professional and fair manner throughout.
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The Fuller Building is an office skyscraper in Manhattan located at 41 East 57th Street on the corner of Madison Avenue. It was built for the Fuller Construction Company in 1929 after they moved from the Flatiron Building. The building was designed by Walker & Gillette in the Art Deco style, although in a very conservative fashion.[1] The building's exterior features architectural scupture by Elie Nadelman, and the interior has richly decorated vestibules and lobbies featuring marble walls, bronze detailing, and mosaic floors.
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Sayeeda Warsi, Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion, speaks at the 2009 Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Monday October 5, 2009. (Photo by Paul Toeman)
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So why don’t blacks vote Republican? The answer is simple. Black people are not crazy. Being not crazy, they understand a simple truth about conservatives: They have never stood with, or up for, black people. Never.
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.....item 1)... OnlineAthens ... Athens Banner-Herald ... onlineathens.com ... Pitts: 'Our' blacks vs. 'their' blacks
By LEONARD PITTS
Published Monday, November 7, 2011
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Do you think it gives Clarence Thomas a warm, fuzzy feeling to know he is one of Ann Coulter’s blacks?
That is how Coulter put it on Fox “News” while defending Herman Cain against sexual harassment charges that threatened to engulf his campaign last week. “Liberals,” she said, detest black conservatives, but the truth is, “our blacks are so much better than their blacks.”
“Our” blacks? Really?
Social conservative pundits tend to be astonishingly obtuse when discussing race, (See Exhibit A, above) so it is good they rarely do so. Last week was an unfortunate exception, as one of “their” blacks struggled to frame a coherent response to allegations that he harassed female colleagues in the 1990s when he headed the National Restaurant Association. Though accusations of sexual impropriety have beset a bipartisan Who’s Who of black and white politicians, the right wing came out in force to argue that people are only questioning Cain because he is a black conservative.
This would be the same Cain who not so long ago said racism was no longer a significant obstacle for African-Americans. This would be the same right wing that is conspicuous by its silence, its hostility or its complicity when the injustice system imposes mass incarceration on young black men, when the number of hate groups in this country spikes to more than a thousand, when the black unemployment rate stands at twice the national average, when the president is called “uppity” and “boy.”
But they scream in pious racial indignation when Cain is asked questions he doesn’t want to answer.
A “high-tech lynching” said blogger Brent Bozell.
“Racially stereotypical,” sniffed Rush Limbaugh.
“I believe the answer is yes,” said Cain himself when asked on Fox if race was the cause of his woes, adding honestly, if hilariously, that he has no evidence whatsoever to back that up.
If you didn’t know better, you’d think Cain was some hybrid of Emmett Till and Kunta Kinte. Nobody knows de trouble he’s seen.
The candidate has spoken of how he left the Democratic “plantation,” the implication being that more blacks should vote Republican. It would seem on the surface to make sense. As a 2008 Gallup Poll proved — and simple observation reiterates — African-Americans tend to be as conservative as your average Republican on some key moral issues and are more religious than the average Republican, to boot.
So why don’t blacks vote Republican? The answer is simple. Black people are not crazy. Being not crazy, they understand a simple truth about conservatives: They have never stood with, or up for, black people. Never.
Forget modern controversies like mass incarceration. Social conservatives, then based largely in the Democratic Party of the early- to mid-20th century, opposed the Voting Rights Act. They opposed the Civil Rights Act. They opposed school integration. They opposed the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They opposed a law to crack down on lynching.
These are the people for whom African-Americans are now supposed to vote? To make the argument is to betray a stunning contempt for the intelligence — and memory — of black voters.
In talking about race, conservatives have all the moral authority of a pimp talking about women’s rights. Granted, “their” blacks might disagree.
• Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald. His columns appear each Monday in the Banner-Herald. Send email to lpitts@miamiherald.com. Pitts chats with readers online from 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays at www.MiamiHerald.com.
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.....item 2).... Moment of Truth Project ... momentoftruthproject.org ...
The era of deficit denial is over
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOMENT OF TRUTH REPORT
momentoftruthproject.org/node/295
December 1, 2011 marked one year since the release of The Moment of Truth report by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The report declared that the era of deficit denial is over. In the year since the report was issued, fiscal responsibility and reform has become the dominant national issue and the debate has shifted from a question of if we should reduce long-term deficits to a matter of when and how we will do so.
While the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (Select Committee) failed to reach an agreement on $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, the momentum behind enacting a bipartisan, comprehensive fiscal plan based on the framework put forward by the Fiscal Commission has continued to grow. In the wake of the Select Committee's failure, a growing number of lawmakers from across the political spectrum have voiced support for a bipartisan and comprehensive approach to solving our fiscal problems, with many of them specifically calling for reviving the Fiscal Commission's recommendations. These calls have been echoed by many editorial boards and columnists and organizations.
Former Fiscal Commission co-chairs and current Moment of Truth project (MOT) co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Sen. Alan Simpson remain active in the discussion on how to solve our nation's fiscal problems. They testified before the Select Committee on November 1 and have had several op-eds published in addition to speaking to audiences across the country. They continue to receive very positive reactions from audiences across the political spectrum (Sen. Simpson reports that he continues to get "more thumbs up than other digits"), providing further evidence of what the Commission wrote in The Moment of Truth preface:
"The American people are a long way ahead of the political system in recognizing that now is the time to act. We believe that far from penalizing leaders for making the tough choices, Americans will punish politicians for backing down -- and well they should."
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Click here to read the official statement from former Fiscal Commission members Erskine Bowles, former Sen. Alan Simpson, Alice Rivlin, Dave Cote, Andy Stern, Ann Fudge, former Sen. Judd Gregg and former Rep. John Spratt.
Click here to see where we would we be if the Fiscal Commission's recommendations had been adopted one year ago.
MOT Highlights
... New York Times: Thomas Friedman: Go Big, Mr. Obama
... Des Moines Register: Editorial: It's Time to Dust Off the Bowles-Simpson Plan
...Fiscal Times: Super Flaw: If Only Obama Had Held Up Bowles-Simpson
...USA Today: Obama Missed the Boat to Cut the Debt
Testimony Before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Click here for written testimony.
Click here for video and full transcript.
Bowles, Simpson Speak at the 2011 WSJ CEO Council
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Bowles, Simpson Interview with MSNBC's Chuck Todd
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Recent Op-Eds by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson
Washington Post: The Super Committee's Make or Break Question -- Nov 16, 2011
CNN Opinion: All It Takes to Solve U.S. Debt Problem is Willpower -- Nov 15, 2011
Washington Post: Our Advice to the Super Committee: Go Big, Be Bold, Be Smart -- Oct 2, 2011
Click here to see complete list of MOT publications, event recaps and other highlights.
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Oil on canvas; 136.5 x 111 cm.
István Csók, of Methuselah-like longevity, belonged to the generation of Hungarian artists who were now studying in their own country, at the Budapest College of Decorative Arts. The child of a well-to-do miller's family, he was a young man leading the carefree life of the Bohemian art student when he came up against the incomprehension surrounding Pál Szinyei Merse's return at the beginning of the 1880s. Since the vivid and exciting colouring of the near-Impressionistic style of the painter of Picnic in May was decidedly to his liking, he left the institution and went to Munich. At Simon Hollósy's private school he came into contact with the spirit of the new movement that was getting under way - naturalism. The products of his first period belong under that heading. He went to stay in Paris and then, after getting married, settled there from 1903 onwards: that was when he painted the pictures that teem with ever richer colours. After 1910, when he had returned to Hungary, his oeuvre took a new direction: the pictures he painted of his family and surroundings celebrate the joys of a balanced middle-class life. His art, which glorifies beauty, was increasingly revered; from 1920 he was the president of the Szinyei Society and between 1923 and 1933 he was a liberal-minded professor at the Academy of Fine Art. His portraits, nudes and still-lifes recall the mature Renoir, both in their cheerful colours and in their swirling brushstrokes. He contemplated the world with wise understanding, and was thus pensioned off by the conservative regime, but placed on a pedestal after 1945 by the new order; he was twice awarded the Kossuth Prize in the last period of his life.
Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 02/10/2022. Birmingham, United Kingdom. Conservative Party Conference 2022 Day One. Penny Mordaunt, Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Commons leads tributes to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. Picture by Andrew Parsons CCHQ / Parsons Media
Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 03/10/2022. Birmingham, United Kingdom. Conservative Party Conference 2022 Day Two. Birmingham ICC. Nadhim Zahawi MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and Minister for Equalities during a tour of the stalls at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. Picture by James Whatling CCHQ / Parsons Media
Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 16/08/2022. Perth, United Kingdom. Conservative Party Leadership Hustings in Perth. Perth Concert Hall. Leadership contenders Liz Truss MP, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, and Rishi Sunak MP speak during the Conservative Party Hustings at the Perth Concert Hall in Scotland. Pictured: David Mundell MP. Picture by Euan Cherry CCHQ / Parsons Media
SS Philip and Jacob Church, (grid reference ST594730) previously referred to as Pip 'n' Jay, is a parish church in central Bristol, England. The church that meets there is now called Central. Its full name since 1934 is St Philip and St Jacob with Emmanuel the Unity, although reference to the original church of St Philip exists in records dating from 1174. Historically the 'Mother church of East Bristol', it serves the area known as The Dings.
St Philip and St Jacob refers to itself as the city's 'oldest place of Christian worship'. The church began as a small priory around AD 900. It was later rebuilt by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, who also built the nearby priory of St James'. All that remains of the original church is the font, although parts of the chancel and tower date from at least the 13th Century. The building was extended during the Middle Ages to include the present-day nave, the pillars of which are actually Victorian additions, possibly by William Armstrong.
The tower contains eight bells dating from 1738 and made by William Bilbie of the Bilbie family.
Around 1860 new plans were submitted by John Bindon, Richard Shackleton Pope and Thomas Shackleton Pope and accepted for the rebuilding of the church.
An extension was also added to the south-east corner of the church during the 1980s, comprising meeting rooms, a kitchen and other facilities. The building is an English Heritage Grade II* listed structure.
Since 1963, St Philip and St Jacob has become one of the leading Evangelical churches in Bristol. In the 1970s it was part of the Charismatic revival in the Church of England. Its vicar was the Revd Canon Malcolm Widdecombe (1937-2010, brother of Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe) from 1974 until his retirement in 2009. He died of metastatic oesophageal cancer on 12 October 2010. His son, the Revd Roger Widdecombe, is an Anglican priest. Today, the church supports and sends out many missionaries.
The parish has passed Resolution B of the Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1993; this means it would not accept a woman as its incumbent.
St Philip and St Jacob is one of the original parishes of Bristol. It includes the Old Market area, and extended beyond the original city boundaries to include what are now the Bristol districts of Baptist Mills, Barton Hill, Lawrence Hill, Newtown, Russell Town, St Jude’s, St Philips Marsh, The Dings and part of Easton. A growing population in the 19th century led to the building of ten new churches in the east of the parish, seven of which have now closed. In 1871 Greenbank Cemetery was opened as a burial place for the whole parish.
The ancient parish lay within the hundred of Barton Regis.
Joris Bonson has repeated over and over and over and over ..... "The NHS is safe in our hands" but words are just words. Reality is something else ....